Yeah I agree, it's just sort of how America is - naturally everything that happens there tends to spill over and have consequences around the world as well, so I'm not pretending it won't affect me or anything like that. It's more like... I don't get a vote in America, and it's not like I can reasonably change anything that's happening there in any significant way.
But doomscrolling and arguing with random right-wing Americans isn't helping anyone either, so I don't really see what I can do other than save my energy and maybe try to not let it affect things too much on a more local scale wherever I can?
UK here. We just switched to a Labour government a few months ago and it turns out that the previous Conservative government blew a £22 billion hole in the economy and didn't tell anyone, so now the new government have to deal with it by raising taxes which is pissing everybody off.
In particular, they're changing the way inheritance tax works which is screwing over farmers, so they're now doing mass protests.
I used to have complete anarchy in my Downloads folder, but I've since reformed my ways and now my Downloads folder is clean and my Videos and Documents folders are complete anarchy instead.
For me it's Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I just gave up again after bouncing off it for like the third time. On paper it's exactly the sort of thing I should be into, but that game just doesn't respect your time.
I still have my original one from however long ago it was when they came out (10 years or so maybe?) and it's still working perfectly well. It's outlasted pretty much all my other controllers, except for the red PS4 controller which mysteriously refuses to die.
Yeah as a non-American I honestly just don't have the energy to be worried/outraged about what's going on in the US anymore. I've essentially been fretting about America since George W. Bush took office, and it just keeps getting worse. Now they've handed the presidency, house, senate, supreme court and the popular vote to Trump I just... don't have it in me to engage in four more years of people endlessly tweeting about the horrible shit Trump is doing, while nobody does anything about it. Not to mention the decades afterwards it'll take to clean this all up, if that's even possible.
Sorry to all the Americans who didn't vote for this. Good luck.
Yeah I was saying that the other day, in Idiocracy they actually listened to the advice of the smart person and tried to improve things. We're not even doing that lol
I use addy.io to create aliases for different things, and then set up filters in Thunderbird to mark them as they come in so, for example, if I make an account at xyz.com and then I get a bunch of unrelated spam marked as coming from xyz.com, then I know they've been selling my info.
I probably have about a dozen or so aliases currently, but they're pretty loosely organized.
I've been saying for a while, George W. Bush is the one who took the door off its hinges and sold it, Trump is just the inevitable crackhead who walked in and started living in the kitchen.
Also as a non-American, I don't get how this is even a close election? To me it seems like the options are Competent Politician Who You May Not Agree With On Everything vs. Actual Cabal Of Demented Fascists, and it seems like it could genuinely go either way.
I kind of did this once! Essentially I got laid of from a job but happened to have a good money buffer and life was quite inexpensive at the time, so I just thought "fuck it" and went as long as I could without working, I made it about a year.
It was awesome! My mental health has never been better, I wrote most of a book, got pretty decent at Blender, started working on learning to make games... and then I had to go back to work and it all went to shit lol, that was several years ago and I haven't touched any of it since.
I have two, KDE on my laptop that runs Arch (btw) which is my tinkering machine, and GNOME/Pop!_OS on the desktop, which is the one other people use and I'm not allowed to break lol.
Although I might switch the desktop to COSMIC at some point if it doesn't cause too much trouble.
There's a Doctor Who episode with that idea in it too, the Doctor saves a girl in Viking times but brings her back forever, and when he meets her in mediaeval times she has a whole library of books that are just her memories that she's written down over the years.
It seems like a lot of people complain about Doctor Who not really having any canon or rules, and contradicting itself constantly (sometimes within the same episode) but I don't think that's necessarily a failing because it's not trying to do that at all.
The trend these days is for a lot of shows, especially sci-fi ones, to be sort of 'internet-proof' and be designed to withstand the people who go through frame-by-frame looking for little errors and contradictions to pull apart, and Doctor Who ignores that completely and just aims to be big fun campy dramatic nonsense, which I think it mostly succeeds at. I think the only cardinal sin for that show is don't be boring, which IMO it pulls off more often than not.
And it's fine to not like that of course, but I don't get it when people try to call the show out for not doing something it's never really tried to do, at least since it came back in 2005.
Yeah I think seasons 4-12 are the kind of 'safe' era, but you can go a few seasons either way and still get some bangers, it's just a little more patchy.
I thought the general broad strokes of what happened were fine (IE with
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Daenerys being the big villain and stuff
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), I just thought it was rushed and done in a kind of sloppy way. I really didn't like
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Bran becoming the king though
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Yeah I agree, it's just sort of how America is - naturally everything that happens there tends to spill over and have consequences around the world as well, so I'm not pretending it won't affect me or anything like that. It's more like... I don't get a vote in America, and it's not like I can reasonably change anything that's happening there in any significant way.
But doomscrolling and arguing with random right-wing Americans isn't helping anyone either, so I don't really see what I can do other than save my energy and maybe try to not let it affect things too much on a more local scale wherever I can?